Ski season status

Four seasons of the operator's releases

When each resort opened and closed

Booking sites sell Gudauri from 1 December. The operator's own releases show what actually happens: the dates are announced in the first three weeks of December, Bakuriani opens first on artificial snow, Gudauri runs longest, and the first week or two at every resort means a handful of lifts. The 2026-27 announcement broke the pattern by coming in October, and for all four resorts on one day. The dates below are the day each release gives for the event; where a release was never posted, the table says so.

One caution on the dates: MTA rebuilt its site in autumn 2026 and the 2025-26 opening and closing releases are not in the new archive. Those rows carry the dates as we read them on the old press centre on 28 October 2026. The rebuilt site also dates some older releases a day earlier than the old one did; we print what it shows now.

Gudauri

Bakuriani

Mestia (Hatsvali and Tetnuldi)

Goderdzi

One operator, one list

Pass prices

MTA runs all four resorts and publishes one price list a season, with one Multicard and one season pass that works everywhere. The 2026-27 list had not appeared on 10 November 2026: the Prices and Rules page on the rebuilt site was empty and the online resellers listed nothing. Until it does, these are the 2025-26 prices, which were themselves unchanged from 2024-25; a rise of a few lari would not surprise us.

Passes are sold at the ticket offices in each ski area, at the Marco Polo hotel in Gudauri and at Smart supermarkets in Tbilisi (Aghmashenebeli Alley, 13th km), Gudauri, Borjomi and Zhinvali, and online through skipass.ge, tkt.ge, biletebi.ge and the Bank of Georgia SuperApp, all per MTA's FAQ of January 2026. Every pass lives on the physical Multicard: a QR code on your phone does not open the turnstile, so an online purchase still needs a card, which skipass.ge delivers within Tbilisi. Passes are sold until 30 minutes before the lifts close and are not refunded, including for days the weather takes. Pensioner passes are ticket-office only; student season passes are for Georgian citizens only.

What the operator has posted

Latest releases

The newest releases on MTA's news page as we read it on 10 November 2026. Opening and closing dates arrive here first; the price list arrives on its own page.

How to check the lifts yourself

This page is a snapshot with a time on it. The operator's board is public, in English, and takes a minute to read once you know where the lift list hides.

1. 1

   Open the live board

   Go to mta.ski/en/today. Each resort has a card with a status word, the number of lifts and trails and how many of each are open, the operating hours and a "Last updated" stamp. Read the stamp: on 10 November 2026 the board's last update was 7 November 2026, 00:09, and the site still carried a "testing mode" banner.

2. 2

   Open the resort page for the lift-by-lift view

   Each card links to the resort page (mta.ski/en/resorts/gudauri-kobi, bakuriani, mestia, goderdzi), which lists every lift by name and type with its own status: Open, Closed, Delayed or Unknown. The Mestia page lists Tetnuldi and Hatsvali separately.

3. 3

   Check the news page for dates

   Opening and closing dates are posted as releases at mta.ski/en/news, usually one to two weeks before the day. The closing date comes the same way in late March or early April. The agency's January 2026 FAQ says lift statuses are also posted daily to its Instagram stories and the resorts' Facebook pages.

4. 4

   Read the price list when it exists

   Pass prices live at mta.ski/en/prices-rules. The page was empty on 10 November 2026; the 2025-26 list appeared in mid-December last year, and online sales through skipass.ge, tkt.ge, biletebi.ge and the Bank of Georgia SuperApp started on 23 December.

5. 5

   Check the road before the lifts

   An open lift is no use behind a closed pass. The Jvari Pass section of the Military Highway above Gudauri closes to all traffic in avalanche weather (13 times last winter) and the Goderdzi Pass road closes for the season. Our road and pass status board reads the Roads Department list every Wednesday in winter.

What the statuses mean

Closed, before the season

Every lift shows Closed until opening day, so a Closed status in November or early December means nothing about the snow. From 20 December it means that lift is not running: wind, avalanche control, no snow on the run, or a fault.

Partly open

Our word for a resort with some lifts open and others closed. The operator's board shows one status word per resort and a count; the resort page shows which lifts. Early and late in the season most days are partly open.

Delayed

The operator's status for a lift that will open later in the day, usually after avalanche control or de-icing. Check the board again at 10:00 rather than driving up at 09:00.

Lifts versus trails

The board counts trails (pistes) separately from lifts. One lift can serve several trails, so a resort can have three lifts and twelve trails open; the lift count is the one that tells you whether you can get up the mountain.